Red Hook to commemorate Sandy anniversary at annual Barnacle Parade
The Red Hook community will come together Tuesday for the sixth annual Barnacle Parade, an event held each year in commemoration of Superstorm Sandy.
This year’s parade will fall on the seventh anniversary of the superstorm, which touched down in New York on Oct. 12, 2012, rocking several of the city’s coastal communities. Red Hook was among them.
The Barnacle Parade — held each year “by Red Hook, for Red Hook,” according to its Facebook page — was launched by a group of neighbors in 2013, one year after the storm brought a “12[-foot] storm surge and giant mess.”
Under an umbrella theme of unity, the parade highlights the solidarity and resiliency of the waterfront neighborhood each year.